Jobs and Professions

Planning to work abroad, this is your post to study all you need to know for your stay.

Still lost with vocabulary, try this basic vocabulary for ESO

What to read

What to read in English?

Well, just a question of liking.

What would you like to read about?

News Horrors / thrillers  

Novels Myths and legends
Short stories Magazines
Comedies Signs
Fairy tales Articles
Adventures Fiction
Fictional Detective

For more ideas and reading, please click on our What to read section.

Listening to ESL

How do you feel about your listening skills?

Good enough?

Here's your section to practise listening to English as a second Language all day long.




Episode 27. British Weather (Lots of exciting vocabulary!!!)from http://teacherluke.co.uk/

listen to ‘27. British Weather (Lots of exciting vocabulary!!!)’ on audioBoom

Enjoy your listening!

Any suggestions?

Music perhaps? www.lyricstraining.com

Classroom language

As you can see, this is a very important section for all of you. We need to understand each other, don't you think? So, time for starting up and let's set the classroom rules and instructions.

Any questions so far?

Classroom language Listening 

Tests and exams

The Learners of English are very likely to do any kind of TEST or EXAMINATION at least once in their learning life, and thus, if you are one of those who are desperately looking for some more tests to do, this the right Blog to start with.

Basic considerations before starting any English course or test.

First of all, let's find out your exact level of English.



Test your English by the

Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing TEST 1. Answer key  Audio



 

However, this is very best Test or exam ever!:

Where shall we go? Let's go on a trip! USA, UK, Ireland, India. Where?

To be or not to be. That's the question

Here's your document to practise all through the verb to be


Below you'll also find a Basic English Grammar, together with some more practice on the verb to be

grammar book

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Handshakes

To learn a new language, you need someone to talk to, and often you'll meet someone new. More than anything else, you've got to be relaxed in the classroom. So, let's break the ice and have a look at the different ways of greeting.

When saying hello & good-bye for the first time, what do you normally do?

When people meet, they should shake hands, smile and say: I'm ... (name). Nice to meet you.

or

Hello (name of the person)

Nice to meet you again. How are things?

Hello

Hi

Pleased to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

How do you do?

A handshake

A hug

Tap on one's back

Make eye contact with the other person

Hold the handshake for a few seconds

Smile

- Hello
How are you?

- I'm fine thank you. And you?
- Not bad, thanks.

- Goodbye!. Have a nice day.
- See you this morning!

- I'm sorry I'm late.
- I'm sorry.
- Excuse me!
- Don't worry.
- That's ok.
- Really?
- It doesn't matter.

As you can see above, you've got plenty of examples to practise all through this post. So, now it's your turn to grab a classmate and put your greetings into practice. Let's get it started!

Getting to know you

We've just started the lessons in Rodeiro and we were getting to know each other in class. I asked my students to write their full names and a very short description of themselves. Only one sentence. They could write it physically or personally, as the example provided. However, I think we could spend some time on more vocabulary practice, describing people and perhaps and a listening [audio] about the same topic too. I hope you find this helpful and so, let's practise descriptions.

Speaking Time

Oops! Time for speaking in English. Oh, dear! What a hard task! Our teacher talks too fast in class. However, how long do we speak in English every week? For 2 or 3 hours per week, perhaps less. Come on! Let's put our English into practice by doing this role-play about A day out in London.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Do you like stories about the sea and its monsters? If you do, you'll probably enjoy reading one by Jules Verne








"Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson


When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships?


Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.


After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the surface".


This was mainly taken from the Oxford University Press web page.


Below you can have a look at its adaptation into the cinema. There's also a version for children:  
 



For further information on this book, you'd bettter go to its wikipedia article, the English complete version , and some literature notes.